Mop-head.



PATENTED MAY 2, 1905.

H. BITNER.

MOP HEAD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 21,1904.

Nrrnn STATES Patented May 2, 1905.

IATENT FFIQE.

HARRY BITNER, OF BERWVYN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ARCADE MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

MOP-HEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,115, dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed March 21, 1904;. Serial No. 199,198.

To all 1072 0172 it nut/y concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY BITNER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Berwyn, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mop Heads, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in mop-heads; and its oba bail.

.ject is to produce a device of this class which may be stamped from sheet metal and which shall be extremely light, strong, and cheap.

To these ends my invention consists in certain novel features of construction,which are clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings and described in this specification.

In the aforesaid drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved mop-head with the mop-stick in place therein. Fig. 2 is a plan of the head alone. Fig. 3is an end view, and Fig. 4: is a section in the line 44: in Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring now to the drawings, A is a fiat web of sheet metal from which all portions of the mop-head are stamped. This is the only portion of the original blank which remains in its original form, the other parts all being bent one way or another therefrom.

Along the lower end of the web A are a plurality of tongues a, formed by cutting the edge of the web at right angles and bending the portions between the cuts in an opposite direction, like the teeth of a saw. Each tongue is bent away from the web and is given a curved form, so that the entire line of tongues projecting upon opposite sides forms a groove which is of proper size and shape to receive Two tongues 60 a are provided at each end of the web A. These tongues are also bent in opposite directions and together form a notch suitable for receiving and guiding the straight upwardly-extending portions of an ordinary mop-bail.

The ferrule by which the cross-head is secured to the handle or stick of the mop is formed by making two incisions in the web A parallel to its lower edge, stamping the portion between the adjacent ends of these incisions backward to form a semicylindrical portion B, and-bending the tongues formed from the web A around to form two portions C C,Which, together with the semicylindrical portion B, form a cylindrical ferrule. The lower end of the semicylindrical portion B is curved, as shown at b, and in this portion fits the rounded end of the stick or handle upon which the mop-head is supported. The stick or handle is shown in Fig. 1. When the ferrule is in place upon the stick, it may be se cured thereon by a staple, the legs of which enter two holes 0 c in the bent tongues C, and this staple performs in addition to its function of securing the cross-head in place upon the stick that of holding the bent tongues C locked in the proper relative positions, so as to maintain a perfectly cylindrical ferrule.

I realize that considerable variations are possible in the details of this construction without departing from the spirit of the invention, and I therefore do not intend tolimit myself to the specific form herein shown and described.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A sheet-metal cross-head comprising a web of a single uniform thickness having a groove upon its lower edge to receive a bail, and a ferrule upon the opposite edge integral with the web and centrally disposed with respect thereto, that portion of the ferrule lying on one side of the web merging from its semicircular form into the fiat web, and the portion of the ferrule lying upon the opposite side of the web consisting of tongues extending from the semicircular portion in the form of an arc to complete the ferrule.

In witness whereof I have signed the above application for Letters Patent, at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this 8th day of March, A. D. 1903.

HARRY BITNER.

Witnesses:

CHAs. O. SHERVEY, RUssELL WILES. 

